Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I attended the launch in Sligo and I am delighted to say that in Sligo there will be 1 GBps from mid-2016.

The Minister of State will understand the concern of people who live outside the areas of population, because it would not be the first time something that was supposed to be a national development went as far as the bigger areas of population and then the money was gone. Such populations are afraid that they are going to be left in the very same state. Australia, which is a tad bigger than Ireland-----

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